Mitt Romney: I hope Sarah Palin runs

Romney, who has given a very limited number of interviews this year, declined to speculate about why he hasn't demonstrated more appeal with the GOP's conservative base. He did say he hoped Alaska governor Sarah Palin would run for president, a decision she has said she would make by the end of this month.

"She would make the race that much more exciting," he said.

Palin would also have the potential to do what Michele Bachmann is, so far, having difficulty with - take a chunk out of Rick Perry's support.

This study proves that the Fox lie of Pay for play perry creating good jobs is untrue. Further, a significant amount go to illegal imigrants;

cis.org/immigrants-filled-most-new-jobs-in-Texas

*Of newly arrived immigrants who took jobs in Texas since 2007, we estimate that 50 percent (113,000) were illegal immigrants. Thus, about 40 percent of all the job growth in Texas since 2007 went to newly arrived illegal immigrants and 40 percent went to newly arrived legal immigrants.

*The share of working-age natives holding a job in Texas declined significantly, from 71 percent in 2007 to 67 percent in 2011. This decline is very similar to the decline for natives in the United States as a whole and is an indication that the situation for native-born workers in Texas is very similar to the overall situation in the country despite the state’s job growth.

*Of newly arrived immigrants who took a job in Texas, 93 percent were not U.S. citizens. Thus government data show that more than three-fourths of net job growth in Texas were taken by newly arrived non-citizens (legal and illegal).

*In terms of numbers, between the second quarter of 2007, right before the recession began, and the second quarter of 2011, total employment in Texas increased by 279,000. Of this, 225,000 jobs went to immigrants (legal and illegal) who arrived in the United States in 2007 or later.

*Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers (legal and illegal).

Now you see why Slick Rick is for open borders. His crony friends hire the illegals, they donate to him. A despicable cycle!

Mitt didn't want her to run, but now he does, because he dropped in polls, from front runner to second. He would do the same thing as President, just like all the politicians.......say one thing to get elected and do totally different when elected to office. I don't see the oceans receding, the heat descending, American rebuilt, but we have a signature law...OBAMACare. Well, i didnt want her to run, but now I do, if I can get the nominatino of course.

Romney's health care plan must have just authorized a refill of his Viagra. He's getting frisky with the Palin thing. Maybe he and Sarah can do a Cialis commercial- both of them sitting in tubs watching fireworks together.....

Do you thing T-Paw is sitting by the phone, tears in his eyes, because his beloved Mittens didn't share the same enthusiasm for him when he actually was in the race?

Of course Romney wants Palin in the race. Even the least sophisticated among us know she would take all the media attention and split off some of Perry's support. Romney's plan is to secure the vote from those folks who look at the economy as the biggest problem we face. The social conservatives want their views to hold primacy even though most Republicans know that view gets them no where with the majority of Americans. This is about defeating Obama first last and always and Romney is positioned best to make that happen. All the others have too much baggage to appeal to voters who eschew the social conservative mantra.

Sep. 22, 2011 - 12:51 PM EST Democrats, switch your party affiliation to republican so you can vote for Bachman in the republican primary! We can choose who WE want to run against Barack, and he will most definitely win against her! We cannot play fair and win when they do not! Do it tomorrow! Tell others to do it! Post this message in every blog and board you can find!! We can win! You can still vote for Barack for president as a registered republican! Obama 2012

Andrew Breitbart published two articles this morning that absolutely destroy any credibility (there wasn’t much left) that Joe McGinniss may have had. Breitbart provides an email sent by Joe McGinniss to Jesse Griffin in which he admits all of the accusations in his book are fraudulent. It also appears that the only “sources” McGinniss used in this Random House venture, were the crazed far-left, Trig Truther blogs in Alaska. Breitbart writes:

After a week of universally scathing pans from the reflexively anti-Palin establishment media, McGinniss now faces the fight of his literary life: the accusation that he seems to have knowingly submitted a book to his publisher, Crown/Random House, that was filled with unproved “tawdry gossip” and rumors that lacked “factual evidence.”

In the email below, sent in January of 2011, McGinniss reveals that his manuscript, then under legal review at Crown/Random House, could not prove its most headline-grabbing allegations. And yet, many of these “salacious stories” that lacked “proof” (in McGinniss’s own words) ended up in the book, and on televisions everywhere during the author’s current media tour … without proper sourcing, and without any apparent new evidence to support them.

McGinniss’s panicked state is evidenced by the identity of the recipient to whom he sent his email of distress. Jesse Griffin was the author of an obscure, low-rent, and now-defunct anti-Palin blog that obsessed over Trig Palin’s maternity–claiming, without any evidence, that Sarah Palin was not Trig’s mother.

Was Random House aware that its prized author was making a desperate overtime bid to save face? And if so, why did it allow him to come forth with most of those tawdry accusations without proof or proper sourcing?

This would not be the first time McGinniss has found himself in trouble over accusations of unethical journalism. In 1987, McGinniss agreed to pay $325,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the convicted murderer who was the subject of McGinniss’s book Fatal Vision. He has also admitted to having surreptitiously distributed a competitor’s manuscript about Palin that was handed to him by his own publisher. The leak allegedly damaged the commercial viability of that book.

In 2003, Random House released a larger-than-life, massive bestseller by James Frey entitled A Million Little Pieces. Later, it was revealed that the book was a fantastical literary hoax that made its way past some of the highest-paid and most respected editors and lawyers in the literary world. Doubleday/Random House felt compelled to offer full refunds to those who had bought the book.

In an email dated January 27, 2011, Joe McGinniss, author of The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, says that Random House lawyers have told him he has provided nothing more than “tawdry gossip” to substantiate “any of the salacious stories about the Palin family.”

He adds that “No one has ever provided factual evidence” (original emphasis) of the following accusations:

a) Todd had sex with a hooker, or with anyone else outside his marriage.

b) Sarah had an affair with Brad Hanson, or anyone else.

c) Track was a druggie who enlisted in the army to avoid a jail term. Or that he vandalized Wasilla school buses.

d) Willow was involved in the vandalism of the empty house in Meadow Lakes. Or that Sarah rushed back from Hawaii to put the lid on that.

e) Trig is not Sarah’s natural born child.

f) Bristol was promiscuous as a high schooler and drank and used drugs, or became pregnant again after Tripp’s birth.

Yet almost all of these accusations appear in McGinniss’s book, without any substantial proof beyond gossip, and without any apparent new information to address the lack of “factual evidence” in January 2011.

As stated above, this is not the first time that Random House has mislead book buyers into thinking a piece of fiction was reality based. They paid a heavy fine for it in the past, now that there is evidence available to the public that shows there isn’t an ounce of proof to back up the claims made by McGinniss in his book, they should move to do the right thing and pull it from shelves.

Update: Don Surber weighs in with some observations:

Hating Sarah Palin is a cottage industry built around those intolerant intellectuals who never bothered to find out just who she is and instead bitterly cling to their stereotype of her as a Church Lady who shoots Bambi from helicopters. Those who hate her are shelling out $13.99 to buy charlatan Joe McGinniss’s book, “The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin,” which apparently is more fiction than fact.

That’s because Joe McGinniss spent a summer in Alaska on his publisher, Random House’s dime and could not come up with anything new.

His words, not mine…

Mind you, this missive to the blogger was sent on January 27, 2011, after Joe McGinniss had spent the better part of a year trying to dig up something — anything — on her.

Things that Joe McGinniss left off his list: G) Sarah Palin had an affair with Osama bin Laden, H) Willow had an affair with Alex Rodriguez on the David Letterman Show or anyone else, I) the Palin dog is rabid and vandalized buses in Meadow Lakes while having an affair with World B. Free or anyone else…

Even liberals believe Joe McGinniss and Random House went too far.

If she runs, I will vote for Sarah Palin satisfied that there are no skeletons in her closet. She is who she says she is. So many people have vetted her that I have full confidence that there is no scandal anywhere.

Now then, maybe Random House can hire someone to dig up the dirt, finally, on a fellow named Barack Obama. He is, after all, only the president of the United States.

I wonder whose votes she'd get? Perry's because of his immigration dream act in Texas? Or, Romney's because of Romneycare? Or, Bachman because of Bachmanitis...

I think she'd surprise all three. I wish now, after hearing her focus on crony capitialism as the major issue of our time--its corruption, etc.--I've become more forgiving of her, shall we say, idiiosyncracies?

The more I look at the candidates, and the more I know them, another couple of individuals added to the gaggle would not bother me.

Well, duh, yes, of course Romney thinks it would be cool if she got into the race - she'd siphon delegates away from Perry. Now, that may not matter if the nomination goes to multiple ballots and she sells her delegates to Perry after the first round...